We're starting this week off with the long-awaited Runekeeper Update #4. In this update, you'll find tons of bug fixes of course, but also some brand new systems/content and many improvements as well. There was a big focus on recent suggestions and quality of life changes here. And, if you were running into performance issues before, this update should help a lot in that regard too!
More to come as always! The next update will be an even bigger update, likely in the form of the next major update, instead of this mini major update...
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Bonus Tip: Going forward, crafting recipes are now unlocked automatically as you discover and/or craft new items. You no longer have to have the items in your inventory all at the same time to discover new crafts with them.
New
- Magical items are now generated with shorter, unique titles. You can now filter items by their magical property names.
- Added a new rare item drop that has a single magical property that is based on the creature it came from.
- Added an excavate/collapse action attached to shovels that will allow you to specifically create cave entrances/exits. You can now create new cave exits underground.
- Added a new magical property, "Terror" for scarecrows.
- You can now see how many turns are left before you can invoke within the item tooltips with 50% Theurgy skill.
- You can now see exact creature health values at very high levels of anatomy.
- Added a toggleable warning when dumping or dropping items into the void/water.
- You can now see your territory tier in the "Other Stats" tooltip.
- You can now remove all UI global save data in the "Save Data Removal" options.
Improvements
- Milestones now reveal in greater detail their effects.
- Added additional alerted icons based on creature difficulty.
- Traveling or sleeping can now grow doodads more than one step at a time based on how long you are gone/sleep for.
- Added a new property for creatures that dictate their alertness radius for attacking the player, and made some modifications for all creatures.
- Caves/lava can no longer be found randomly when digging, except for when digging deep holes. This can no longer happen while mining rock.
- The Starter Quest has been updated with new progression due to defaulted action slot changes.
- Scarecrows now benefit from their quality to improve their radius.
- Scarecrows now reveal their area of effectiveness via tooltips.
- Mysterious parchments and magical inscriptions can no longer be upgraded. (Thanks Andrej27!)
- Improved the order of tile events so that fire and tumbleweeds would not appear under others or each other.
- You can no longer sleep or rest when a hostile creature is next to you. (Thanks muzzy!)
- Fixed some item actions not being usable outside of the main inventory (like transmogrification, altering, enhancing, etc.). (Thanks Hiran!)
- Fire will now persist on grass tiles, eventually burning them completely.
- You can now butcher things while they are on fire (at risk of burning yourself). (Thanks sechsauge!)
- Reduced the delay for ascending and descending cave entrances.
- Escape will now cancel out of an item drag.
- The milestones dialog now has a warning when milestones can't currently be unlocked. (Thanks DerSimon!)
- Improved the tooltips for dripstones.
- Added a way to refresh the mod list when Steam overlay is disabled.
Balance
- Crafting recipes now also unlock when you have seen all the items that go in a craft, rather than needing them all available in your inventory/adjacent containers.
- The reduction of swimming skill gains is now reduced as the skill levels up, making it a lot easier to max out.
- Reduced the stamina cost of using wheelbarrows and increased their capacity slightly.
- It is now harder (based on skill) to mine for minerals and ores and harder to get logs from trees.
- Wells will now regenerate water faster.
- The "Crafter" milestone modifier now adds a bit more crafting difficulty.
- Some creatures can no longer accept being petted, and some aggressively so.
- You now need to dig a deep hole before placing a well.
- Increased the base health/strength of merchants.
- Fire spreading now transfers a lot less of its decay to adjacent tiles.
- Raspberry bushes now contain more raspberries.
- Directly offered items no longer need to be crafted by a player to be accepted by a creature to tame them.
- Reduced the amount of items that a creature can produce/drop on a tile to 3.
- When corpses decay or are removed, items on top of them will sink in water or drop into voids.
- Consuming water tiles will now consume the full water amount instead of just rarely, to fix more water exploits. (Thanks Anketam!)
- Increased cold insulation on cloaks.
- Reduced the durability and cold insulation values on mage robes and added a fire vulnerability to them.
- The "Artificer" milestone modifier no longer gives you a magical essence, but rather the ingredients to potentially craft one.
- Dryads can now only spawn in territories that are tier 3 and above.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed some doodads, allowing certain (very) exploitable actions to be used from a distance. (Thanks quick!)
- Fixed durability/decay bars and magical animations not showing at 0.5/0.75 scale. (Thanks chromosomelocomotive!)
- Fixed "Persistence" items generating with incorrect durability when gathering. (Thanks DerSimon!)
- Fixed the "Masochist" milestone, progressing on deaths from creatures it should not have been. (Thanks Anketam!)
- Fixed collapsed caves not showing as collapsed visually when setting down tiles over top of the other side.
- Fixed the crafting dialog not updating recipes correctly.
- Fixed plant spreading not working properly when sleeping or advancing time. (Thanks psusi!)
- Fixed the creature tamed marker disappearing after uncaging a tamed creature.
- Fixed auto use actions skipping a tile when last facing a direction instead of moving. (Thanks the_cirada!)
- Fixed errors when attempting to consecrate many high-quality runes. (Thanks Hiran!)
- Fixed fire and other tile events not being visible over vehicles.
- Fixed the default axle type being tin instead of wood for minecarts. (Thanks kustoxv2!)
- Fixed copper minecarts being flammable.
- Removed certain very heavy items from being offered in merchant inventories, leading to issues refreshing their stock. (Thanks Hiran!)
- Fixed carpet and wooden tracks not burning properly.
- Fixed tile events not burning properly.
- Fixed the durability bar sometimes not updating when reinforcing. (Thanks muzzy!)
- Fixed not being able to use an action using a keybind in the action menu when it was the same as a disabled action. (Thanks muzzy!)
- Fixed torches with hoarding getting incorrect values. (Thanks Hiran!)
- Fixed a certain region of the screen not allowing clicks in real-time mode. (Thanks Hiran!)
- Fixed allowing magical property "Persistence" items from breaking on repair when protected. (Thanks the_cirada!)
- Fixed not being able to pour water or start fires in deep holes. (Thanks Hiran!)
- Fixed item decaying not working during travel/sleeping/forwarding events.
- Fixed being able to mine certain tile events.
- Fixed the wrong object being used in describing a warning when trying to gather from a tile that was on fire.
- Fixed tamed creatures slipping through walls. (Thanks typesoshee!)
- Fixed a potential error happening when digging. (Thanks Echora Tallit!)
- Fixed tile weight limit being checked for items in many instances where it should not have been including player death, container breaking, and more. (Thanks crowsandlions!)
- Fixed magical properties not being discovered in some instances like crafting or digging. (Thanks crowsandlions!)
- Fixed lighting not getting cleared correctly. (Thanks muzzy!)
- Fixed some creatures that could only be tamed using offered items not getting the correct happiness levels. (Thanks crowsandlions!)
- Fixed torch and candle magical properties getting re-rolled when lit. (Thanks AlP!)
- Fixed some rare items from not being able to receive the "Aptitude" magical property.
- Fixed tooltips not appearing after dragging and dropping an item onto a tile. (Thanks Vombat!)
- Fixed some skill milestone modifiers not being checked on game load. (Thanks Markus Faust!)
- Fixed hobgoblins setting down traps over water and other inappropriate places. (Thanks riftborn!)
- Fixed container weight not updating after traveling. (Thanks Feral Grumpicorn!)
- Fixed refining or reading some items not updating container weight. (Thanks Nobody Important!)
- Fixed "metabolism potency" not showing properly on item tooltips. (Thanks Anketam!)
- Fixed too much glowing/illumination, causing the opposite effect. (Thanks Bad Dreams!)
- Fixed the "regeneration" magical property not working on doodads. (Thanks DerSimon!)
- Fixed context menu and submenu bindings only sometimes working. (Thanks muzzy!)
- Fixed errors when trying to inspect distant lighthouses. (Thanks Anketam!)
- Fixed many memory leaks, causing slowdowns when playing for an extended amount of time. (Thanks TheBlackHand!)
- Fixed getting more resources from holes by abusing water routing tactics. (Thanks muzzy!)
- Fixed skipped quests not being completable after the fact, causing them to stay active forever. (Thanks sƃnı̣tNIⱯP!)
- Fixed detection of overlay enabled state on Mac & Linux.
- Fixed quest requirements not being removed from the pause menu when skipping quests.
- Fixed holes appearing underneath plants/doodads from creature spawning. (Thanks DerSimon!)
- Fixed path to tile attempting to move over holes. (Thanks DerSimon!)
- Fixed the "Luck" stat not having an icon.
- Fixed All Follow command text. (Thanks Feral Grumpicorn!)
- Fixed indicating an item stack for trade not causing the stacked items to appear if the stack hasn't been opened previously.
- Fixed highlighted stack items not appearing if the stack hasn’t been opened yet. (Thanks muzzy!)
- Fixed item menus being broken on stacked items in certain contexts. (Thanks DerSimon!)
- Fixed the rest action on "best item" making you move forward a tile.
- Fixed a right-click issue on macOS. (Thanks HelixA2!)
- Fixed shippers being able to use the cargo they're shipping. (Thanks inquisitiveToast!)
- Fixed the game not always loading when using Wayland on Linux.
- Fixed auto-use not working correctly when backing up with a wheelbarrow. (Thanks Ursa (lovesthesoundof)!)
Technical
- Updated Electron to version 35.
- Upgraded to TypeScript 5.8.
- Fixed a performance issue related to messages and magical sprite animations. (Thanks Hiran!)
- Items in a pile are now culled after a certain amount in a stack. (Thanks the_cirada!)
Modding
- Stopped including Typescript dependency when publishing mods. (Thanks muzzy!)
- Removed unnecessary rimraf dependency from mods. (Thanks muzzy!)
Mods
- Removed the curse stat (for now).
- Added an icon for the "Magicology" skill.
- Staves no longer weigh as much.
- Fixed getting stuck trying to attach a water container to a water still when there's a flying creature over it.
- Fixed getting stuck due to slippery tiles.
- Will now prioritize the spawn point location when looking for a location to build a base.
- TARS is now less likely to venture to dangerous places.
- Fixed TARS getting stuck trying to dig deep holes.
- Learned how dripstones actually work.
- Improved Quantum Burst Mode speed.
- Reduced stuttering when moving.
- Fixed the dialog header not always updating when moving.
- Will no longer pickup items from dangerous tiles when organizing the base.
- Will build at least 1 water still in addition to drip stones.
- Fixed various pathing issues.
- Will now pick up items when the solar still is blocked.
- When looking for water, take into account the amount of time it will take for purification.
- Fixed movement issues related to tamed creatures.